Black Mesa Forums Back Online

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We've had an interesting year now haven't we? Most anticipated mod of 2005, a strong focus on custom content, and the target of pre-meditated hacker attacks ending in downtime and the forum database's destruction. That’s just a few of the highlights too!

To put it bluntly, the last attack us took demolished the forum database. We have backups, but due to forum inconsistencies and losing installation packages: porting over the older database's backups will be very tedious and immensely frustrating. So unless we have a strong incentive to port over the old database, consider it MIA.

With that said, post away and spread the word that our public forums are back online. A brand new forum license and working towards a skin to accompany it. Due to the incompatibility of the last skin to 2.1.x, we are looking for forum skins (or better yet, forum skinners). We'll be starting up a thread in Off-Topic to facilitate suggestions so please keep such suggestions in there.

On a final note, you will be hearing something official from us in the near future. Don't ask when, because we're not going to tell you.

'Tis nice that they are back, and yay for a near future update.

 

[Black Op]

Cheers comrades! My Motherland is back online! :thumbs:

 

[Feath]

Oh, woo.

 

[99.vikram]

H 1 in Source... *drools*
I know it's old

 

[Zunni]

Glad to see that nothing seems to be stopping this mod.

Keep up the hard work.

 

[hot564231]

Time fr spam to get my in my hand Muahahaha! and also good to see it back!

 

[Cargo Cult]

Oh dear. And MINERVA has a forum too - although one with a significant, apocalyptic difference... ;-)

 

[Kalashnikov]

Time fr spam to get my in my hand Muahahaha! and also good to see it back!

Do not spam our forums. We are going to be enforcing the rules much more strictly to stop the stupidity that those forums were known for in the past.

 

[Insano]

Do not spam our forums. We are going to be enforcing the rules much more strictly to stop the stupidity that those forums were known for in the past.

Wasn't there a big battle between separists and something else?

 

[Cargo Cult]

Do not spam our forums. We are going to be enforcing the rules much more strictly to stop the stupidity that those forums were known for in the past.

Main rule on my new MINERVA forum - in less than two weeks, the whole lot gets obliterated. I'm convinced forum-goers should continually have an awareness of their own mortality, so therefore a countdown timer is present on every single page.

Ticking down until the inevitable.

Rules? Who cares. It's all going to be destroyed anyway... ;-)

 

[Asknoone]

I shee.

 

[hot564231]

Do not spam our forums. We are going to be enforcing the rules much more strictly to stop the stupidity that those forums were known for in the past.

Expect chaos then, not from me but from others and Kal... it be only the old threads being placed back, it more likely sapmming in he threads not spamming lots of threads and lighten up btw jezz

 

[Polaris]

r00t hacked those forums.
Why? Because it annoys me that you think I'm a script kiddie which hacked 2.0.4.
Now I hacked 2.1.6...
Anyway, all the IPB series are full of critical bugs. When they close 1 bug.. another one opens. Just like Windows.
So you were hacked again...
My IP is not my IP, its my little proxy and it does NOT keep any logs.
No admin was hacked, it was just an exploit to byass admin login and go straight to teh admin CP as an invissible root admin.
Say sorry for something and admit that I'm not a script kiddie and I'll leave you all alone.

Unfortunetly hacked again by stupid kiddie hacker! :frown:

 

[SimonomiS]

That was fast.

 

[ríomhaire]

I hope someone punches him in the face and deletes every file on his computer and all his backups.

 

[The Axis]

This is starting to get annoying... maybe BM should start using vBulletin instead of IPB on their forums.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I hope someone punches him in the face and deletes every file on his computer and all his backups.

Slapping him with a lawsuit seems to be in order. If only he could be tracked.

 

[Black Op]

I have lost almost all confidence with the BM web staff by this point.

 

[NeoSeeker]

Expect chaos then, not from me but from others and Kal... it be only the old threads being placed back, it more likely sapmming in he threads not spamming lots of threads and lighten up btw jezz

I don't know why people are so resistant to spam i find it fun....

Too bad about BMS

 

[jheaddon]

I have lost almost all confidence with the BM web staff by this point.

You're having a ****ing laugh aren't you Black Op, what do you expect us to do about it? We just updated to the latest version of IPB, which we had to pay for, hoping it would be secure enough for everyday running, clearly otherwise.

If you want to do something, try a little ****ing harder?

 

[The Axis]

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
The Software is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the Software is borne by you. Should the Software prove defective, you and not IPS assume the entire cost of any service and repair. In addition, the security mechanisms implemented by IPS Software have inherent limitations, and you must determine that the Software sufficiently meets your requirements. This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an essential part of the Agreement.

Doesn't look like you can get a refund on that either..

 

[hot564231]

i don't know if this would cheer up anyone, but BM was named 'Mod of the moment' on MODdb

i hope this cheered up you're day guys i know it must be a shitface one today

 

[Double_Blade]

What??? BLACK MESA BACK ONLINE!!! Whoopee! Leap and jump for joy!

 

[Asknoone]

You're having a ****ing laugh aren't you Black Op, what do you expect us to do about it? We just updated to the latest version of IPB, which we had to pay for, hoping it would be secure enough for everyday running, clearly otherwise.

If you want to do something, try a little ****ing harder?

Don't. PMs are there for a reason.

 

[Ennui]

I don't know why people are so resistant to spam i find it fun....

Probably because it's conducive to idiocy and immaturity, and makes it nearly impossible for anything remotely bearing resemblence to actual discussion to come up.

 

[63]

Don't. PMs are there for a reason.

Where did you get 9000 posts!?

 

[ríomhaire]

Where did you get 9000 posts!?

h4x

edit:
In other words Samon felt he needed an e-penis extention and Starmonkey was happy to oblige.

 

[Asknoone]

Where did you get 9000 posts!?

HL2 section is your friend.

 

[BigBoss7556]

It's been hacked again...

 

[Black Op]

Oh it'll get hacked every 24 hours now I predict.....

 

[63]

Hehe...

Screw the forums, make the mod!

 

[Kalashnikov]

Hehe...

Screw the forums, make the mod!

Thats what we're doing! Now that the forum situation appears to have been resolved, we'll continue back into the bunker. If you need us again, scream SNARK and that generally clears out the bunker real quick.

But on a more serious note, please look to the announcement on our forums for the latest info on our standings.

 

[ríomhaire]

Going back to that forum made me remember why I left, stupid suggestions left and right and half the people thinking that it's canon that the Combine were on Xen. Even the supposedly most purist member has suggested a giant f*cking portal in the sky in Surface Tension.

 

[jerkasaur]

the supposedly most purist member has suggested a giant f*cking portal in the sky in Surface Tension.

god yeah... i think the team should ask hl hardcore fans for suggestions, rather than these kind of people.
one thing about the forums, BM(S) is Mod of the year, so it's not that unusual to get hacked by others to slow you down. forget about the forums, make the mod! :cheers:

 

[Black Op]

Going back to that forum made me remember why I left, stupid suggestions left and right and half the people thinking that it's canon that the Combine were on Xen. Even the supposedly most purist member has suggested a giant f*cking portal in the sky in Surface Tension.

That suggestion has turned into storm effects now more or less due to compromises. :cheese: I may have proposed the original plan, but I'll probably not fight too hard for it. However I see no reason why BM(S) should directly cater to people that never played HL1 before, nor should we fear noobs that will take BM(S) content to be the truth for what happened in HL1.

 

[Asknoone]

I'm not a fan of Black Mesa, but I'll go ahead and post some anyway.

 

[Kalashnikov]

I'm not a fan of Black Mesa, but I'll go ahead and post some anyway.

. I respect that. There's a lot of people out there that don't like us and simply push us into the dirt accordingly, but there are a few other that don't like us, say they don't like us, and allow everyone to go on with their lives.

Going back to that forum made me remember why I left, stupid suggestions left and right...

Welcome to the Black Mesa community. It's something about us that just wants to attract every member which no other community wants: which is why ND, INS and FF have these really cool communities! lol, Imagine if we scrapped the public forums... Oh the inhumanity that would unleashed on the Half-Life community!

Oh, that was funny.

 

[Asknoone]

. I respect that. There's a lot of people out there that don't like us and simply push us into the dirt accordingly, but there are a few other that don't like us, say they don't like us, and allow everyone to go on with their lives.

I don't not like, I'm just skeptical.

 

[myth]

hav they updated their contents????

 

[Ennui]

I don't not like, I'm just skeptical.

Could it be? Samon and Ennui in logical, warranted agreement?

I'm similarly skeptical, but hell - make your mod. If it's as awesome as you say it is when it comes out, I'll be the first to withdraw my words, shake your hand, and play the mod. If not... you put enough effort into it that saying "I told you so" would just make me feel like an ass.